President Obama got a couple of very good-looking polls on Thursday. A CNN poll put him seven points ahead of Mitt Romney in the national race. And a Fox News poll gave Mr. Obama a nine-point lead.

Some polling firms, like Pew Research, have consistently shown strong numbers for Mr. Obama. When a polling firm like that prints another strong number for him, it isn’t necessarily news.

Mr. Romney cannot use that excuse in the case of the Fox News and CNN polls. CNN’s surveys so far this cycle have had essentially no partisan lean, whereas Fox News’s polls have shown a modest Republican one. Mr. Obama’s number was strong not just in an absolute sense, but also relative to their earlier polls.

In the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, Mr. Obama’s lead grew to 4.4 percentage points on Thursday. That’s his largest lead by its method since early April, when Mitt Romney was just starting to recover from a rough stretch in the primary campaign.

what is wrong with Rommney....if he doesn't want the Presidency, find someone else who does....I cannot defend him anymore...i will not donate money to this campaign until he get some testecular fortitude....he is becoming an embarrassment... I heard him on the Bennet show....ridiculous, he is becoming a wimp and will be trounced by Obama.

5:29 pm August 10, 2012

Terry330 wrote:

President Obama is the many for the job,yesterday-today-tomorrow.

5:38 pm August 10, 2012

erly pete wrote:

living with denial... it's not a river in egypt

5:39 pm August 10, 2012

PMaxUT wrote:

It has been proven that the public is and will swing opinions on any given week. Romney as any business person knows, is not showing his hand and is letting the Obama campaign run their mouths off. Romney is wisely using his money and will slam the Obama administration when it counts. Why run a Super Bowl ad 3 months before the game?
As far as the polls.
Obama was all excited when a job poll comes out and it looks good then goes hides in a cave when they are bad.
What the public does not realize it there are polls that are good and polls that are bad. If all is good as the polls say, then why is our economy still in the tank and REAL unemplyment about 20%. The polls say all is good.
Enough said!

5:40 pm August 10, 2012

bootus mcdoosh wrote:

Rasmussen does NOT 'favor' Romney - as the article states. Rasmussen correctly predicted the last election within the lowest margin of error of ANY poll. Their error rate is .05%. Rasmussen polls likely voters, and their standard is unmatched. Sorry to burst your bubble WSJ.

5:42 pm August 10, 2012

Anne Coulter wrote:

Republicans are idiots for having such a weak candidate. They deserve to lose.

5:45 pm August 10, 2012

Romney Camp wrote:

We are the "money" guys. We understand the power of "money" and once we throw our "money" at the problem it will be fixed. "Money" solves all. "Money" is God. And NO I am not releasing my taxes because I know ALL about "money" and it is mine.

5:48 pm August 10, 2012

Bads too the Bone wrote:

The people running the Romney campaign are a bunch of whimps. Obama has so many flaws and failures it's almost painful not to point out even a few of his major gaffes. Get some people that know how to cut Obama down to size and take no prisoners.

5:51 pm August 10, 2012

Rick Santorum wrote:

I could be doing better than this, as a true conservative candidate.

You pick a moderate RINO and you lose too -- bwahahahahahaha!

5:52 pm August 10, 2012

Willard Limbo wrote:

What a total disaster poor Mittens

5:58 pm August 10, 2012

Polling over the past 12 years... wrote:

Over the past 12 years Rasmussen has been more accurate then any other polling. They bit the dust in 2010 but they were dead on in 2000, 2001 (VA and NJ), 2002 (Congressional), 2004, 2005 (VA and NJ), 2006 (they were predicting the D sweep with IBD before anyone else), 2008, 2009 (they had NJ going to Christie while the WSJ and FOX polls said Cornine would win up to the last two weeks when they changed. They had the best numbers on WI of anyone. Rasmussen, Survey USA, IBD all match up and beat the polls that this writer chose.

5:58 pm August 10, 2012

Ron Paul wrote:

Well, golly, I could have done a lot better than THAT.

But they won't even let ME speak at the Republican convention, can you figure it?

5:59 pm August 10, 2012

Gil wrote:

Release your tax returns Mittens. Prove to the American people you are not a tax cheat. Prove you did not have earned income from Bain after 1998. We think you are lying Mittens. Prove us wrong.

6:00 pm August 10, 2012

Fox "News" wrote:

We own Rasmussen.

6:04 pm August 10, 2012

Not so fast, Grasshopper wrote:

True, these polls are not good news. But Romney is largely dark in direct campaign advertising until he is officially nominated. He has a lot more money than NObama, in the campaign as well as personally. When he starts to unleash ithe spending after the convention I think we'll see a him out in front quickly. As long as NObama and Axlerod are controlling the message it's all about Romney's supposed negatives, not NObama's horrific record as president. I also think there is continuing reverse racism; people don't want to admit being against NObama for fear of appearing to be prejudiced. When the debate is back to where it should be, on NObama's economic record, i don't see how Romney loses. When voters are in the privacy of the booth, they will vote their pocket book. Please remind your liberal/progressive friends to vote on Wednesday, November 7, 2012.

I've had 5 phone calls in the last month that were polls. Each time I've said, I'm too busy, sorry. I will be voting this year, but I couldn't bring myself to vote for McCain, so I paired myself with a Democrat who agreed not to vote for Obama. The only poll worth anything is the one on election day. I'll let the media get all wet over polls.

6:14 pm August 10, 2012

Elliott W wrote:

Also, the campaign is being fought in PA, FL, and OH. All the other states are just candidate fodder, along with what the media thinks is important. The ground war is in the swing states.

6:14 pm August 10, 2012

Innocent until proven otherwise wrote:

Gil, Romney doesn't have to prove the negative. Let Harry Reid release the name of his "source". Let the dems "prove" Romney did something wrong. If he were illegally evading taxes, the IRS would have been all over him years ago. But while we are on the subject of "records", let's have NObama release his records from Occidental, Columbia and Harvard. We've seen mrs NObama's enlightening, college thesis, what is HE hiding? I want more details on the home purchase in Chicago with his jailbird financier/friend. Let's see Harry Reid's taxes for the last umpteen years because he's become wealthy living on a Senator's salary. Or drop this crap and focus on the real issues: the utter failure NObama's first term in office and the disaster a second term will be. As NObama said in the 2009 (paraphrasing somewhat): If I don't have this fixed in three years, it's gonna be a one-term thing. He doesn't have it fixed, indeed it's worse, therefore, "it's a one term thing".

6:14 pm August 10, 2012

Grasshopper wrote:

What they gonna do with all the money, buy a miracle? Give Romney a charisma transplant? Clean up the tax returns of 20 years to make them politically appealing?

They are doomed, all the money in the world cannot buy republicans and Romney one ounce of favorability.

6:15 pm August 10, 2012

Beer4U wrote:

Of course, I am paid to spin things for the Romney camp, so I would never tell you, for instance, that most polls show that most people disapprove of Romney than approve of him, and I will be the first to admit that he is the weakest Republican candidate since Bob Dole.

6:18 pm August 10, 2012

Drip Drip Drip Of The Tax Returns Continues wrote:

Romney losing about 0.5% on the tax return issue -- not much at once, but more than enough in the aggregate to carry him down the flusher.

6:19 pm August 10, 2012

Not so fast Grasshopper wrote:

Grasshopper, just like the fable, one ot those who watches others work and save (as the Romeny's have), is jealous of the success and, when winter comes, demands that those who worked and saved support him/her! Never a more poignant fable for America.

6:23 pm August 10, 2012

Newt Gingrich wrote:

I said that Governor Romney would be a weak candidate, and hes' a weak candidate.

Governor Romney doesn't want to talk about Obamneycare, the Economy, or his job experience at Bain Capital. Well, what does that leave? He doesn't have any foreign policy experience, unless you count his blunders on the London trip. He doesn't relate to ordinary folks, or anybody who doesn't have a car elevator. He can't sing.

So, exactly what does Governor Romney expect to run on?

And why can't we as the Republican Party nominate somebody better? Grief, if you are going to go down, at least do so with some fight. Let's get somebody who is not embarrassed about who they are, who don't have skeletons hiding in their tax returns, who can take the fight to Obama, and let's get behind that person.

But it's not Governor Romney -- supporting him is like supporting the box that yesterday's pizza came in, you don't hate it, but you don't much like it either.

6:24 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Boy Scouts vs Urban Street Gang...and it ain't pretty. ...You know something is very wrong with Mitt the Politician when in response to the horribly dishonest ad about the cancer death of Joe Soptick's wife he says "They have mistated the facts".

6:26 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

When O wins, the GOP and their supporters will be completely destroyed by the Fascists....and don't expect any mercy from the Fascists.

6:28 pm August 10, 2012

JD wrote:

Hearing an Obama supporter talk about "experience" is revolting. No one has ever had less than Obama. Heck, he had to invent a fake job (community organizer) just to claim he wasn't doing nothing! Community organizer! That's not even a real thing!

Even now, Romney's got a lot more meaningful economic experience than Obama. Obama's only "experience" consists of learning that what he's done so far doesn't work!

6:28 pm August 10, 2012

Obama Camp wrote:

Obama's savage personal attacks on Romney have finally paid off to convince ordinary Janes to vote for Obama, although they are all lies. Romney should run different campaign than the loser, McCain. He should show more commanding and aggressive responses to Obama's pit-bull attacks, otherwise he will lose election.

6:29 pm August 10, 2012

Tom Neiman wrote:

The trouble with most registered voters is they vote on charisma instead of character; personality instead of principle; perception instead of perspective. If they go on the former then an Obama landslide, and four more years of descent and disaster for the United States and the world. Voters then have only themselves to blame.
If they go on the latter then a Romney landslide. Wake up, voters, elections have consequences!

6:35 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

We turn off the TV every time an Obama ad comes on. Pure rubbish whatever he says. We cannot stand him and I'll be curious if the West supports him.
There are lots of Mormons in the West and they aren't FEARED. They are respected and looking at their demographics - they SHOULD lead. They know how to do some key things - keep families together - live long and healthy lives. They are the best, but the worst bullies (Chicago Democrat types) will be able to bully everyone they know into voting for street gangster types like Obama. He sold drugs in college, for god's sake.
And a lot worse - being accused in murder in Chicago.

6:35 pm August 10, 2012

Independent wrote:

I think given the poor record of Obama and poor prospects of Romney that we temporarily grant Bill Clinton the right to become President for a third term.

6:39 pm August 10, 2012

Grasshopper and the Ant. wrote:

The ant was once a man who was always busy farming. Not satisfied with the results of his own labour, he plundered his neighbours' crops at night. This angered the king of the gods, who turned him into what is now an ant. Yet even though the man had changed his shape, he did not change his habits and still goes around the fields gathering the fruits of other people's labour, storing them up for himself. The moral of the fable is that it is easier to change in appearance than to change one's moral nature. T

6:40 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Bill Clinton - the morals of a street dog. Please.

6:40 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Ask Wisconsin union officials how accurate their polls were when the final votes were counted…they lost.

6:41 pm August 10, 2012

Curtis wrote:

Release the returns Mitt. Want to know why it's killing you? 1) You either made millions and paid no taxes (which is a turn-off for any voter) or 2) even if #1 is not true, you've been running for a decade and should have had the foresight to correct whatever issue you are trying to hide. Either way, not good.

6:42 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Yes, think WISCONSIN.

Romney - 2012 - A GOOD MAN......!

6:43 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Obama is being accused of murder in Chicago. Look it up... he may not even make it 4 more years, and be a super embarrassment like Clinton.

6:46 pm August 10, 2012

JOSE RIVERO wrote:

MR ROMNEY HAS A LOT OF RELATIVES IN MEXICO SINCE HIS FATHER AND MANY MEMBERS WERE BORN IN MEXICO. HIS LAST TRIP TO EUROPE WAS A DISASTER.

HE OFENDED THE BRITISH ON THE OLYMPIC ORGANIZATION, THE MEXICAN WHEN HE SAID THAT ISRAEL HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THE PALESTINIANS LIKE THE USA HAD WITH MEXICO. AND SPAIN WHEN HE SAID THAT HE WILL AVOID THE USA TO BLUNT LIKE SPAIN.

6:48 pm August 10, 2012

rasmussen flip flop poll for flip flop candidate wrote:

Rasmussen changes everyday in different directions, they have the most voluble sample. Two days ago it was Obama up by four, today is Romney up by two. Easy to be less wrong than other pollsters when you fiddle the numbers to minimize the likelihood of being wrong.

Is a dishonest poll, very similar to Romney. Flip flopping makes them similar.

6:49 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Romney is a good man, unlike the liar who will not reveal his Columbia U. records. What is he hiding? Some have investigated and say they can find NO ONE who verifies he attended. They called 400 people who were also in pre-law - not one remembers him in the class of 83'.
Democrats are getting lower and lower in their standards and that is why more and more people (like us) have quit the Democratic Party.
Romney - 2012

6:50 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

so romney thought he would just keep lying and people just voted for him?
last time the supremes placed a croo k in the wh (aka gwbush) he destroyed not only the us economy but brought the global economy to its knees..
if republicans push another i diot&liar&croo k&tax chea t in the wh it may be the end of the usa..

all romney does is lie and lie and lie about the other guy's record..
the real question is, who are the idio ts who still want to vote for him?
you are re publican wanna be rich and think romney will think of you? stop watching fox news and wake up!
he will steal your dime and give it to his buddies - that's ALL romney knows how to do.

6:51 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

I hope they are calling both coasts when they do the sampling. The East doesn't have a lot of Mormons, I don't think. I could be wrong. Out WEST, they are everywhere. In nice neighborhoods - well-educated - good-looking, kind, sweet and very responsible. Their kids are a joy. Not a curse.

6:53 pm August 10, 2012

JD wrote:

I realize that Jesus was also a community organizer, but my one true god is Money so I really don't care.

6:53 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Blacks are prejudiced against whites and especially good white people like Mormons.

6:54 pm August 10, 2012

Leiliani wrote:

In case you are wondering, I am an asexual 50 year old woman who has been PMS-ing since day one, and have always been spiteful and hateful since the day I figured out that boys didn't care that much about me.

6:55 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

wonder if romney suffers of alzheimer, just like reagan.. he keeps forgetting that his buddy gwbush brought a huge pile of cr ap on all of us and decided to blame the sh it on someone else.
i bet you he has alzheimer - that is the only explanation that he can't remember where this country was in january 2009..

6:55 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

I'm married and you spelled my name wrong. Yahoo.

Idiots are in the Democratic Party.

6:56 pm August 10, 2012

Leiliani wrote:

BTW, I also believe that the Angel Moroni visited John Smith in his tent and gave him the wisdom to write a better Bible, think of it as "Christianity 3.0".

Oh, they'll be square-dancing on Kolob to that exalted 6th level of Heaven when the honeybees lead Romney to victory. And I'll have my magic underwear on!

6:56 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Romney is running on his "private equity" experience, so questioning his record is vital to our democracy. How can voters elect someone when the candidate balks at accountability for his controversial private record? That's preposterous. Bain was a profit-making venture for Mitt, Bain and the other well-heeled investors Romney took on. It had nothing to with creating jobs. How can Romney profess to fix a jobs crisis when all he knows is how to kill jobs and make himself richer? http://www.sunstateactivist.org

6:57 pm August 10, 2012

greg wrote:

rasmussen is a republican biased pollster that for that reason is always inconsistent with other polls. so just ignore any results from them.

6:58 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

It was a same sex marriage, BTW -- just shows you what you know!

Stupid dumbocrats!

6:58 pm August 10, 2012

Gosh Golly wrote:

I heard from an exceptional source that Harry Reid has advised obozo that he would contiinue to drive our economy into the dirt. Cant wait for November.

6:58 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

What is wrong with money? It was OK when Obama made millions - he still is making very good money.
LOL
Now, someone comes along who is better-looking and richer and OMG! There's something wrong with money now!

6:58 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

so, why is the romney campaign covering up romney's tax evasions?
as far as i understand the law, they are as liable to go to jail as romney is.
tell the campaign croo ks to stop the cover up and bring out romney's tax records!
stop the cover up! out the tax cheat now!

6:59 pm August 10, 2012

greg wrote:

if fox gives obama a nine point lead, richie rich had better start to worry.

7:00 pm August 10, 2012

Chairman Mao wrote:

Comrade Romney is a secret member of the Central Committee and honored for creating so many jobs in this Communist paradise while he was at Bain Capitalist-Pig-Dogs.

He also told me to build an elevator for my rickshaw.

I told him: Chinese don't put dog on roof, Chinese eat dog! It would have been a delicious "Rufus Roll".

7:01 pm August 10, 2012

greg wrote:

i think this disrespect for the institution of the presidency is a cancer on america. whoever the president is, he deserves your respect, even if it doesnt incldude your support.

7:02 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

The American Dream - come to America - work harder than the next person and make a bundle.
So, the Romneys and a lot of other Mormons (who aren't hungover on Monday) figured out the magic formula of how to keep a family together and how to keep their daughters from becoming prego at 15 - and now they are despised by the blacks and Hispanics because they STILL can't figure it out.
Teen pregnancy leads to a lifetime of poverty and dependency on others.

7:02 pm August 10, 2012

Curious wrote:

When the fat lady sings it will be over.

7:05 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Quit voting for Chicago trash.

7:08 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Mormonism is the only one, true religion -- the Angel Moroni said so. That is why Mormons are superior to you heathens.

7:10 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

All this talk of Mr. Excitement makes my magic underwear wet!

7:16 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Mormons are good people. They have longer lives and even were some of the first to give women rights. Utah was the second state in the union to give women the vote.
Their women have a very supportive community with book clubs, craft and art classes, help with babysitting, movie night, etc.
Blacks can't even come close since their men don't even stick by their women.

7:18 pm August 10, 2012

orlfla wrote:

Sure, believe the polls. And then be sure and believe that the pollsters knew what they were doing when they oversampled Democrats by 11 and 12 points in some polls. And why do they do that? It's because of the big turnout for Obama in 2008. I've got a feeling they've overestimated their brilliance and it's not going to be even close to that. In fact, they'll be lucky to get a turnout this election.

7:19 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Obama is accused of murder in Chicago by a woman who worked for the police department. She says he or his "friends" had her son killed right before the election because the "knew too much".
Obama is accused of being gay by a REPORTER who saw him with the man who died.

7:19 pm August 10, 2012

Barb Dayan wrote:

Mitt Romney could hit it out of the park by announcing a visionary and bold policy that turns the entrenched status quo upside down and inside out. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker demonstrated to voters that he was not only a tough negotiator, but he was also on the right side of history. Romney could wipe out collective bargaining for public employee unions on his first day in the White House. This announcement would encourage a fierce debate about inequities in public employee pensions vs. Social Security and Medicare (both systems funded by taxpayers). This strategy worked for Gov. Scott Walker by exposing the inequities, greed and corruption in the public union system.

7:21 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

There are now 24 million Independents and a lot of people are dropping both parties but the Democrat Party moreso than the Republican Party.

7:24 pm August 10, 2012

G Gallup wrote:

The real poll that matters is how many felons, illegals, and dead people vote for BO come November. Obama is more than willing to steal the election. Welcome to the third world nation of the United States of Chicago.

7:26 pm August 10, 2012

rainbows wrote:

How does one respond to someone like "Leilani"? One doesn't. Let her go by like a small dark cloud of rain on the blue hawaiian skies.

7:26 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Personally, I think it is smart of Romney not to say too much until in office. After all, Obama was called "The Empty Suit" - apparently, he didn't take a stand. So, why should Romney until he is ensconced in office?
Romney has nothing to lose. If he loses, he is still a wealthy and happy family man who is respected by most families.
No one will blame him for anything.
Obama will continue to be blamed because he DOESN'T DO ANYTHING definitive.

7:27 pm August 10, 2012

Beer4U wrote:

Hey lib that stole my posting name, get back to your hash pipe and stop whining. Fact is Obama's approval is going down even after his PACs outrageous cancer ad and his surrogates lying about Romney's tax returns, etc.

8:04 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Leilani,
What do you mean he doesn't do anything definitive? He got healthcare under Big Governent, propped up the UAW by redistributing the wealth of our grandchildren, won a nobel peace prize while being the commander in chief of a country engaging in two wars, and I think he led a daring raid of USSOCOM forces that resulted in the dealth of bin Ladin. Quite a bit I'd say.

8:07 pm August 10, 2012

John Shniper wrote:

You have ONE chance to make a first impression. Romney has flubbed that crucial teat. Likeability and competence lower than the President. Who cares how much money you have to spend AFTER the voters have rejected you?

8:09 pm August 10, 2012

John Shniper wrote:

test not teat: correction

8:09 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

No one really gives him credit for what the US military would have done no matter who was President.
Only a Democrat would give him credit for killing bin Ladin and they are supposedly anti-war. LOL
If Democrats give Obama credit for killing bin Laden then they also have to feel sorry for what happened during Bush's watch which pulled the country down - 9-11.
And they have to give Bush credit for dealing with the aftermath.
Yes, it is true, Obama has done some big bad things - and history will show that. Our debt is the most frightening thing - probably on Earth - and Obama will be held responsible for adding to it.
No one will forgive him in the future. He wanted the command of this ship and he gets all the blame.

8:15 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Obama even told people that if he couldn't turn the economy around that we should not elect him again in 2012.
So, why is he wasting the Democratic Party's money by running again?

8:20 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Wasting? They are just spending the investment income from all of the special intrest pork that got doled out over the last 3.5 years...supporting him is the least they can do.

8:21 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Right-wingers love to talk about Obama's lack of experience, and I wouldn't deny that they have a point. Two years in the Senate wasn't much, and I'd even agree that there have been times when his lack of experience, combined with his aloof nature, have hurt him, and maybe the country here and there.

But what's Romney got? In fact, far fewer years in public office than Obama had--Obama's 10 total years to Romney's four. Obama worked in a state capitol, just like Romney, and then at least he had two years in the Senate.

You can say well, at least Romney's experience was a chief executive, and that's true. But being a governor is not much like being a president. I doubt most recent ex-presidents would argue that their time in Little Rock or Austin or wherever really prepared them for the White House. And of course a gubernatorial term does nothing to prepare one for interactions on the world stage, as we just painfully witnessed.
This is one reason why Romney keeps touting his business experience. There are class and racial presumptions woven into that--that a rich and successful white man with a bold jawline must surely know what he's doing. But he keeps demonstrating that he doesn't. Maybe, despite the fact that he's from central casting, he just isn't ready for prime time. He's the 98-pound-weakling dressed as Charles Atlas.

8:24 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

so why are some republicans covering up romney's cra p? tax evasion and all the cra p he did.. why?
have they totally lost it? or are just plain stu pid and think that romney would give them a bone or two..
romney has been in for himself, all his life. not worth it covering up for a croo k..

8:25 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

so why are some republicans covering up romney's cra p? tax evasion and all the cra p he did.. why?
have they totally lost their minds? or are just plain stu pid and think that romney would give them a bone or two..
romney has been in for himself, all his life. not worth it covering up for a croo k..

8:28 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

8:24
And you have proof of this?

8:31 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

In short - is that all you Democrats have? LOL
You repeat, repeat, repeat and polls have shown no one cares about Romney's money. It is actually a great credit to him and his family that they not only made great money but KEPT IT. As many lottery winners gamble and flout their money and are penniless within a short time.
Speaking of penniless - why do you liberals NEVER seem to grasp the spending issue???????

8:31 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Leilani is an example of a retardblican .

8:34 pm August 10, 2012

orlfla wrote:

The whole Democrat philosophy and strategy is to breakdown the family structure and remove religion as part of people's lives. Why would they do this? Because if people do not have family and religion then they have nothing else to look for support from. They can go to friends but it's not the same as family and other than familiy, to those who have a reliigious belief their religion is next to famly. Once they get people to rely and depend on the government for all types of support, financial, moral, mental, etc. then they can have that person depend only on them. It was like when miners had a company store. The store ended up owning them because it had total control over their lives.
Democrats want to keep people at the bottom. If they gain strength and move up then they will no longer have control over them. Think about it.

8:35 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

I'm actually an example of ex-Democrat, now Independent.

8:35 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

It's over. The Ultra rich ultra big ego Romney can go back to one of his many mansions and retire. People like him are a drain on the country..... MUCH worse than the poor people he and his political party love to demonize.

The tax cheating unconvicted felon lying bully Romney can get lost.

8:37 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

8:28
proof? what more proof do you want other than romney didn't pass mccain's due dilligence.. other than the fact that he put his money in swiss accounts and all the islands that smell badly.. what do you want to see? catch romeny with your wife in bed, or what?
you people cant be That stuuupid..

8:40 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

who has a $100million ira account? based on all the reports out there nobody has seen or heard of such a thing. it's mathematically impossible.. unless, romney lied to the irs..
why are republicans covering up for a bandit? why is romney's campaign covering it all up? that's a liability you know.. covering up for croo ks puts you in jail too!

8:40 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Orlfla
You are right. Statistics show that religion helps people. They live longer and happier.
Not so much unfaithful husbands (or people who can't even say that "daddy" is their husband.
Very sad and our government has made benefits anonymous and has encouraged dependency on welfare.
I worked for Medicaid and it is just sickening to see how many families have a huge amount of program involvement - many programs - while state employees themselves must work 40 hours a week and raise their children WITHOUT depending on the government, but making just a small amount more than those who sit idle. Some of these workers are switching parties as they are just sick of watching all of it.

8:41 pm August 10, 2012

GottaLaugh wrote:

Oh man! I am just waiting on the veep pick. This is gonna be a real laugh. Good bye righties.....

8:44 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Why do YOU want Romney's money to give to ABLE-BODIED Los Angeles-BRED Latino women with 8 kids with 3 different men, for instance - and this particular woman has never married ANY of the fathers of her children. I knew her. The state tried to force her to work.
You really want Romney to pay for that? I don't want to pay for her housing allotment, either.

8:46 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

BTW, Orlfla is my sock-puppet so that I can have a conversation with myself.

8:47 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

They are trying to make us feel like Romney should help millions of illegals. Ha. Who wants to give the US government any money and see them waste it on scoundrels?

8:50 pm August 10, 2012

Orlfla wrote:

Being a lesbian is good -- Rainbow coalition and don't eat at Bigot-Fil-A

8:51 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Besides, everything I have read indicates Romney has given far more to charity than Obama who is a tight little pipsqueak.

8:53 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

you are middle-class republican and you vote for romney you have to have your head checked.. romney told you he'll put his fingers in your pockets and pick whatever you have to give it to his buddies 'da super rich'.. you are Not part of that club! he Told you he was after your money!!
don't be fooled again - wbush took everything you worked for and more.. (including your 401k).. don't let romney follow up on wbush or you'll never retire!

8:56 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

..In his key role as chairman of the Marriott board's audit committee, Romney approved the firm's reporting of fictional tax losses exceeding $70 million generated by its Son of Boss transaction. His endorsement of this stratagem provides insight into Romney's professional ethics and attitude toward tax compliance obligations.
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don't vote for another croo k! wbush took your house, your job and your 401k..
don't be fooled again!!

9:00 pm August 10, 2012

Texas53 wrote:

The government can't even run the postal service/ssan and now you want them to run our medical care. REALLY!

9:03 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

I am middle class but I am not concerned about myself as much as I am about THE ENTIRE COUNTRY GOING BANKRUPT - WHICH IS WHAT MOST ADULTS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT.
Obama is an idiot to all who pay their bills. He and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and that Gang of Thieves.

9:05 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

I worked for Medicaid - don't tell ME to trust Democrats. They force people to join unions whether the employees want to or not. In fact, didn't many of the employees in Wisconsin QUIT giving the unions money after the Governor came to their assistance - and allowed them FREEDOM?

9:07 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

wbush took your house, your job, your 401k savings and sent you to wars to defend his daddys pride..
don't be fooled againa by another croo k!!
you are Not in romney's club - he will take your dime and give it to his buddies.
romney is in for himself! middle-class republican, wake up!! don't vote rather than voting for a croo k!!

9:08 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

We need our super rich. They have the ability and the freedom to leave and go live in a nicer country and they do a great deal of our consumer spending. The middle class doesn't spend as much as the wealthy.
So, our country will be poorer in general if you Democrats keep chasing them away.
They don't owe any more than YOU. They only owe for what resources or infrastructure they use.
They buy more insurance and other protections (security systems) so they are actually less burden to taxpayers.

9:11 pm August 10, 2012

Susie wrote:

I wouldn't pay any attention to the polling either. Many of the polling companies are heavily weighting democrats on Obamas behalf by as much as 10points. So no I do not think Obama is ahead. If anything he has reason for concern.MItt is ahead in Colorado, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Florida are essentially tied. The independents will break for Romney.

9:16 pm August 10, 2012

Brain-damaged Conservative wrote:

DON'T PSS ON ME AND TELL ME NO IT RAININ'. We all no FOX News is a whacko liberal organization. Who cares what theyre socialist websight has to say. All theyre employees was probably educated up in socialist countries in the North, while my Texas education tells me how to tell tail from head of a snake.

9:19 pm August 10, 2012

Taxes are for the middle class chumps wrote:

Vote Romney--only average people deserve to pay taxes so trust funders like Swiss Mitt can skate.

9:32 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Most middle class wouldn't even have a job if it weren't for the wealthy who actually have started a company that GIVES not only taxes but employment.

9:33 pm August 10, 2012

What can be discussed then? wrote:

Mitt Romney appears to be seeking an agreement with the Obama campaign to remove his business record from the conversation, a sign that the repeated attacks on his tenure at private equity firm Bain Capital may be getting under the presumptive Republican presidential candidate's skin.

“[O]ur campaign would be-- helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon-- business or family or taxes or things of that nature."
[...]

“[W]e only talk about issues. And we can talk about the differences between our positions and our opponent's position.” Romney said of his own campaign: “[O]ur ads haven't gone after the president personally. … [W]e haven't dredged up the old stuff that people talked about last time around. We haven't gone after the personal things.”

Bain is part of the issues related to jobs and taxes .

Romney Care is related to Health Care reform and the ACA.

Long form tax returns is about fairness and "corporate welfare".

Tax returns also are important when the discussion is about the middle class paying for the tax cuts for the wealthy.

Huge federal assistance to rescue the Salt Lake City Olympics are related to Romney's role and the budget.

Something is not quite right with Mr. Romney.

9:41 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

There are new figures out which show the middle class doesn't even pay that much in taxes.
In fact, they use many, many resources and I'll have to look it up, but it makes you Democrats look like you don't know what you are talking about. Sorry. Apparently, the middle class uses more than they contribute.

9:43 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

For one thing, many middle class people put their parents on Medicaid in old age when they have spent down their cash or other assets. So, the parents end up costing states a fortune.
When the estate is examined, later, by the state, only the premiums are recovered, not the total cost to the state which is huge.

9:52 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

So, the middle class maintains the most of their inheritances and bills the "other folks" - which is certainly an odd thing that they protest - about the wealthy - and yet they are just as guilty.

9:57 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Excuse me. I doubt the wealthy bill the states for THEIR parents nursing home costs. It would be middle class and below who do that.

10:03 pm August 10, 2012

Lieliani wrote:

Like all Republicans, I pretty much hate anybody who doesn't have both a country club membership and their own Gulfstream Jets. What losers! The middle class should either be forced to be slaves to the 1% who are wealthy, or they should be liquidated in concentration camps.

10:03 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

And which class are most of our incarcerated? They use up vast amounts of resources - much more than their "fair share".
No one gives it any mind. Especially not Democrats. It's ok that criminals not only make our country into a place where parents must intently watch their small children for fear of abduction, kidnapping, etc., but the costs that go up in such an atmosphere. Costs to businesses for cameras, security staff, all kinds of fraud detection ---- it's ok. We just live with the criminals of the lowest classes who drive up all our costs and taxes. No one should object.

But, let a Mormon get away with making an honest buck? Heck, no!

Brother.

10:04 pm August 10, 2012

Aloha Leilani wrote:

Leilani=heavenly lei (hawaiian)

are you for real? Answering your drooling comments would make me feel like I am beating on a seriously mentally challenged helpless person.

10:04 pm August 10, 2012

Susie wrote:

I agree with you Leilani, the middle class are such scum!

That's why I am working so hard for Mitt "Mr. Excitement" Romney, who is to politics what Perry Como is to music.

10:08 pm August 10, 2012

"stop hitting me or I'll start crying" wrote:

:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha… ha… ah ha: “Romney also said in the interview he would like a pledge (of sorts) with Obama that there be no ‘personal’ attack ads. ‘[O]ur campaign would be — helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon — business or family or taxes or things of that nature.’” Okay… okay… let’s consider this… HAHAHAH, hahahahah, ha ha ha ha ha, sorry, we can’t do it, ha ha ha… what a world. Even the good little brown-noser people at Politico have written, “What is surprising is hearing a candidate say, essentially, ‘stop hitting me.’”

Mitt Romney just suggested that he would be fine — totally okay with! — a pledge that would prevent the Obama campaign from criticizing Romney’s business career, the centerpiece of his campaign for president. “Family” — no one’s doing this anyway. There was a DNC horse ad once that was up for about 12 hours, and somehow that counted, okay, okay. “Taxes” — just lay off, right? What is with this Obama and taxes. “Or things of that nature.” What nature? Criticisms of Mitt Romney? You know, no criticizing me in the political campaign, yadda yadda yadda, the usual.

Then:

Romney said of his own campaign: “[O]ur ads haven’t gone after the president personally. … [W]e haven’t dredged up the old stuff that people talked about last time around. We haven’t gone after the personal things.” That doesn’t mean surrogates or Super PACs have, as was brought up to him.

It’s so pathetic. He’s trying to run his primary campaign of bombing the opposition with SuperPAC ads exclusively, instead of getting one single speck of dirt on his hands. And even his “issues-based” criticisms of Obama are highly personal in a cowardly back-door way. “This President’s economic policies show that he knows nothing about, wasn’t really raised in, and absolutely hates America,” and so on.

WILL OBAMA TAKE THE DEAL?

We’re only one or two days away from a “I’m suspending my campaign to go back to Washington and fix the deficit and unemployment problems immediately freakout. Ha ha ha ha.

10:08 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Yes, we have a lot of slave camps - and concentration camps. Right.
NO, looking at the welfare screens as I did, for years - it is the lowest class who are treated like royalty - food paid for, rent, cash assistance, child care, some making the equivalent of $53,000 for a family of 4.
I had a home to rent - 3 bedroom, 3 bath, BRAND NEW and a welfare (young) woman calls to rent it and told me she would get $750 a month assistance and only had to put in $250 herself. She was single with two very small children. No need for her to get an apartment!!!!!!!! Why? She's royalty, apparently.

10:11 pm August 10, 2012

Freedom of religion wrote:

If we all go to church on Sunday and pray very hard and with deep feeling Romney will be elected.

10:12 pm August 10, 2012

Marylander wrote:

Not surprising at all: the longer Romney hides his federal tax returns, the lower his poll number. Just keep it up and M/M Romney will be taking early retirement in Cayman Island starting Nov 2012!

10:21 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Just so we're clear here -- no Jews or blacks are allowed at my country club.

10:27 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Whoever finds it cute to use my name in order to complicate this discussion just remember that you liberals are very racist because you try so very hard to keep the blacks (especially) poor by importing a FLOOD of foreign workers.

10:28 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

It's actually Obama who goes to one of the most spendy parts of Hawaii. Get a clue. It's also the more "white" part. LOL

10:51 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Do you think Kailua is for the local po' folks? HA HA....

10:54 pm August 10, 2012

Harry wrote:

Can we trust or believe one word our biased news-media says? I think not- While Romneys past is meticulously investigated-not one word of Obama's hidden past is ever printed- and the rich people behind Obama spent many millions to hide his past-Obama even surrendered his law license to avoid investigation-Reporters have even been fired from FOX-NEWS because they reported that Obama is not qualified to be president because his father was never a citizen & he (Obama) would have dual citizenship which disqualifies him- Yet our news-media are complicit in hiding Obama's past history and none of the 50 lawsuits against Obama's eligibility were ever reported in our news-

10:57 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

I am not racist against whites - I am sick of Obama and his attempts to try to make everyone hate white and wealthy people when it is they who give this county prosperity. If it were not true, Obama would head for the wealthier Africa of his "roots" and call it good. No, he stays here and tries to inflict guilt so that he and Michelle can hire someone in Kailua to make designer clothing for them - (which was in the LA Times).
In other words, he's a super hypocrit.

11:00 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Apparently, there was something else about that law license .....that was intriguing. I'll try to remember.

11:00 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Go on Harry, please tell us more.

11:01 pm August 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

You too Leilani, you are on a roll!

11:03 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

I'm going to watch a movie. Carry on, Patriots!
Love ya!

11:06 pm August 10, 2012

FactCheck.org wrote:

Q: Did Barack and Michelle Obama “surrender” their law licenses to avoid ethics charges?

A: No. A court official confirms that no public disciplinary proceeding has ever been brought against either of them, contrary to a false Internet rumor. By voluntarily inactivating their licenses, they avoid a requirement to take continuing education classes and pay hundreds of dollars in annual fees. Both could practice law again if they chose to do so.

11:16 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

I don't believe it's a false internet rumor because so many liberals use that excuse.
Watch "We Will Not Be Silenced" a series of videos made by a Hollywood producer for Democrats - describing the bullying by Obama's thugs.

11:18 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

A black FBI agent found the Chicago area to be so corrupt that he believed JFK would never have been elected without massive fraud by union members.

11:30 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

They have plenty of money so to save $600 a year or give up a law license?

REALLY?

11:33 pm August 10, 2012

Leilani wrote:

Quote:
"5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March 2008 saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) "served as a professor" in the law school-but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008.

6. "He did not hold the title of Professor of Law," said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law.

"End of Quote.

11:38 pm August 10, 2012

Barb Dayan wrote:

Positive poll numbers will not end Barack Obama's sleeplessness nor those scary nightmares of Pope John Paul II chasing him down the halls of the West Wing!

12:13 am August 11, 2012

John wrote:

This campaign seems eerily similar to McCain's. Romney has the resources but apparently, not the balls to get down and dirty like obama is doing. Nice guys finish last and no independent (the idiots of the electorate) is going to vote for some doofus who spends the entire campaign on the defensive.
The average independent is stupid and will vote for the shiniest object in the room. As long as the GOP establishment plays nice, Barry will be that object.

1:08 am August 11, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

GOP is playing nice? Guess we dems should get our flak jackets, kevlar suits and helmets just in case.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would reduce corporate taxes from 35 to 25 percent. The top marginal income tax rate would be slashed from 35 percent to 25 percent (for Ryan) or 28 percent (for Romney). But while the former Massachusetts Governor is offering a 20 percent across-the-board cut to all of the current tax brackets, Ryan wants to move to only two: 10 and 25 percent. Ryan-Romney also ends the AMT and by repealing the Affordable Care, the taxes on higher-earners used to help pay for it. (Both men also want to eliminate the estate tax, a move which could theoretically deliver the Romney heirs an $80 million windfall.)

The result of the Ryan plan is predictable.

read all about it.. http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/its-romney-ryan-plan
In all, those tax breaks amount to a $3 trillion giveaway to the richest Americans and corporations, according to the Tax Policy Center. Repealing the repatriation tax would add roughly $130 billion to that.

2:35 am August 11, 2012

The Ryan Bump...the margin of error wrote:

Romney will tie his new dog, Ryan, to the top of one of his Cadillacs.

Funny how all I read about is that obama is losing support in 18-24 yr old, Blacks, women and Independents all the while his job approval rating is doing the Paul Simon song move....Slip Sliding Away. This is going to be a landslide win for the GOP, a repeat of 2010.

4:25 am August 11, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

@210
You did not mention anything about cutting the spending that goes away with lowering my taxes....probably not yours as you are railing on about it, ergo you must be one of those who suckle at the teat of the American taxpayer.

4:26 am August 11, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Previous post should have read goes along with.....

4:49 am August 11, 2012

Fred wrote:

lol @ chaz54

6:55 pm September 4, 2012

mahoba wrote:

Republicans don't believe the polling data? Add it to the list with evolution and climate change.

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